Minorities in the Middle East
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27
March
2019
Between the Millet System and EU Values: The Sunni Muslim Turkish State and Non-Muslim Minorities
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Contributing researcher Dr. Özgür Kaymak discusses minority-state relations in Turkey.
“First of all, I am an Egyptian citizen, and afterwards a Christian”: The Coptic Church in Egypt between religion and politics, as reflected on social media
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Michael Barak reviews the public discourse among the Coptic community on Egyptian social networking sites, which concerns the involvement of the church and its leader Patriarch Theodore II in political issues.
A Druze Conundrum: Suwayda, Jabhat al-Nusra, and the Syrian Civil War
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Guest scholar Dr. Matthieu Cimino explains how the Druze in Suwayda are responding to the Syrian civil war.
Muslim and Druze in Israel: National and Sectarian Identities in Conflict
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MDC Researcher Dr. Itamar Radai explains the local and regional dimensions of recent tension between Muslims and Druze in Israel.
The Yezidis: Traumatic Memory and Betrayal
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Idan Barir analyzes the unique and precarious position of the Yezidi community in Northern Iraq, in the wake of the ISIS offensive there.